MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAJILK ASSOCIATION. (.1 LI DEB R ECORD. PA IMS, August JU. Lieutenant Thorct lias achieved a new world's remril with a glider, remaining in the air for nine hours and four minutes after cutting off the motor. AN ALLEGED DISCO VERY. LONDON, August HO. A skeleton which many believe to be that of Saint Patrick, has been discoveicil near St. David’s Cathedral, in the County of Pembrokeshire. Workmen level. tlv unearthed in an adjacent field a lost Chapel of St. Patrick and have now found the skeleton two feet below the flagstone Hour in front of the altar. The Dean of St. David's points out that the 1 ositiim of the remains -is one of the greatest honour. PREHISTORIC DREAMS. PARIS. August HO. American aivhaclng.ists have unearthed near Macon the skeletons of a woman anil three men, which, they say are 15.000 years old. belonging to progenitors of the human race. HTSTORIO FORGERY. WAR TIME TREASURY NOTES. LONDON. August HO. Sir Basil Thompson ex-] olice head, in an arliulo in ‘English Life,” reveals new details of the greatest Treasury note forgery of modern times, which cost the State £OO.OOO hclorc the forgers were traced. The counterfeit was mi perfect that detection was almost impossible. ft was discovered that an ex-convict was passing the notes. The police decided to help and not hinder him. A Scotland Yard agent became friends with him, and agreed tu go halves in tlie eashing of the notes every Friday. The ex-convict ] aid the priqter half the lave value of the notes, but the name 1 of the printer could not- lie discovered. One evening, the agent and the ex-convict were playing cards when a young man entered and nodded to the ex-i niivii t. The police ollieial tillered to bet the latter toll shillings that the young man once worked in the same ollice with him and was named Forsyth. “Done,” exclaimed the ex-convict. “lie’s a | rinler named Williams.”

The police then smirched London, ami they discovered Williams’ name, lm!f obliterated on a door. They watched the premises for four days, front tlie opposite side of the street, and eventually they entered a stable behind tlie shop anil captured the ox-ion. viit anil the printer. The stable was filled with machinery. It was a forger's den of one’s dreams. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir John Bradbury next morning foigeii one of their own notes on the forger's machine. The conviction saved the country from a crisis of refusal by irede-men and wage-earners to nr(ejt Treasury notes in the early days of the note issue.